Plowman s boot



2 SheetsSl1e'et 1 S. BROWN. Plowm ans Boot.

Patented Mar. 2,

I YZ'Er-LEEEEE llNerrnn STATES PATENT Unmet...

SAMUEL BROWN, OF \NQROES'IER, MASSACHUSETTS.

PLOWMANS BOOT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 225,103, dated March 2,1880.

' Application filed September 22, 1879.

scribed. Fig. 2 represents a rear view of the plowmans boot representedin Fig. 1, with the leg or top opened or expanded, one of the strapsbeing represented broken off. Fig. 3 represents a top or plan view of myimproved boot, the top or leg being spread or opened out to receive thefoot of the wearer; and Fig. 4 represents a perspective view of the bootas it appears when on the foot ready for use, the clasping-strap beingshown buckled and holding the folded boot-top securely and closely aboutthe ankle.

To enable those skilled in theart to which my invention belongs to makeand use the same, I will proceed to describe the construction and modeof operation-of my improved plowmans boot more in detail.

The nature of my invention consists in an improved plowmans boot, madefrom a certain specified number of parts of peculiar form, whereby animproved article of manufacture is produced, as will be hereinafterfully described and claimed.

In the drawings, A represents the upper of the boot, and B the sole, towhichthe upper is attached in any well-known and desirable manner. Thequarters (3 O are secured to the rear of the upper A and to the heel Din any of the usual modes. The upper front portion, E, of the leg ortop, in this instance, is cut from the same piece of leather as theupper A, and forms a part thereof without any attachingseam, and therear part of the top or leg F F is secured to the front part, E, bymeans of two side seams, a a, and these seams stand at their upper endssome considerable distance forward of the center of the entire top ofthe leg or top when it is compressed or folded for use, as indicated inFig.1 of the drawings. To

accomplish this the upper part of the front of 'thelegis drawn back froma perpendicular line.

To give sufficient room for the easy entrance of the wearers foot therear part of the leg F F is cut open, spread apart, and a gore-piece, G,inserted therein, as fully indicated in-Fig. 2 of the drawings, and bypreference this gorepiece G is cut from thinner leather than the otherportions of the leg or top.

If preferred, the rear part of the leg or top F F may be cut fromseparate pieces of leather and united by a seam, b, in the back. By thislast mode of construction the manufacturer can utilize pieces of leatherfor the parts F F as well as thin pieces for the gore G in themanufacture of my improved plowmans boot.

Two holding or clasping leg-straps, H and I,-are employed forcompressing and holding the leg or top of the boot compactly and neatlyabout the ankle.

Holding-strap His secured to the top of the leg at the point 0, and isprovided with a slit or opening, 61, through which strap I, which isfastened at e e to the outside of the back of the leg or top, passes.Strap I also passes through a front supporting-loop, J, and is providedwith a buckle, K, to which the end H of strap H is buckled.

In lieu of loop J, strap 1 may be passed through slits or openings madein the front part, E, of the leg or boot-top.

L L are the drawing-on straps or loops, stitched to the inside of theleg in any proper manner. After the wearer has drawn the boot onto hisfoot by means of straps H and I, the top of the leg is compressed andthe gorepiece G folded up, as represented in Figs. 1 and 4 of thedrawings, whereby a neat, easy, and close fit is obtained about theankle of the wearer.

In Fig. 4 of the drawings a section, M, of the stocking is representedon the ankle N.

By my present invention a close-top plowmans boot is obtained, thuspreventing and excluding the entrance of dirt, which is so common incases where boots are made with side openings, while at the same timethe top of the leg can be quickly enlarged for the insertion of thewearers foot, and then as quickly contracted and secured about theankle, as before explained.

It will be observed that the sides of the boot leg or top appear thesame as a, common high top boot-leg, not being disfigured in any way bythe ordinary side openings and gore-pieces found in plowmens bootsconstructed ornmnufuctured previous to my said invention.

Having described my improved plowmans boot, what I claim therein as newand of my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Pat- IO cut, is-

As an improved article of ll1ztLll1f21CtLI10,2t plowmans boot the upperportion of which is made from pieces A O (J E F F Gihlldfastening-strnqm H I, said parts being out in the form and relativelycombined together as shown and described, and for the purposes setforth.

SAMUEL BROWN.

Witnesses:

EDWIN E. MOORE, JOHN O,-DEWEY.

